Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS